Sleep cycle of a fin whale based on reprocessing of old satellite observations
Viale, D.; Koechlin, L.; Viale, C.
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Reprocessing of old data from the satellite tracking of a fin whale in 1991 allowed us to detect new loops on its path and to show the significance of these loops. Originally, five loops on five consecutive days had been detected. The reprocessed data reveals at least 21 loops, plus many other phases of inertia, together with additional information on the whales position at the surface during these phases of inertia. Based on these new interpretations, we deduce a sleep cycle for this animal. ResumeMise en evidence a partir dun suivi satellitaire dune phase de sommeil quotidienne chez un baleinoptere. La fixation dune balise Argos sur un rorqual (Balaenoptera physalus) donna lieu a un suivi satellitaire de septembre a novembre 1991, qui visait a demontrer notre hypothese sur leurs deplacements migratoires. Notre suivi navait pas ete assez long pour determiner si le baleinoptere marque sortait de Mediterranee mais il avait permis de mettre en evidence quelques phases dinertie dans la vie de la baleine, identiques a celles observees dans les trajectoires de bouees derivantes utilisees en oceanographie physique. Nous avons repris ces anciennes donnees avec de nouveaux traitements. Outre la mise en evidence de ladequation de la trajectoire et du comportement de lanimal avec les caracteristiques hydrologiques et trophiques de chaque localisation, cela a permis de detecter une vingtaine de nouvelles boucles et des phases dinertie dans la trajectoire de la baleine, et de les apparenter a des phases de sommeil. Pour cela il fallait demontrer quelles se repetaient chaque jour.
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